> This is very easy after the fact but does "whip the citizenry into a
> patriotic fervor" sound like Shakespeare?
I guess this is the province of the lit crits on the list, but it shouldn't be too difficult to tell from the style of a passage whether it was written in the 16th-17th centuries, ancient Rome, or 21st-century U.S.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams")